Corsica is a land with a strong cultural identity.To visit Corsica without meeting the Corsicans is to miss something.
To do so is to deny ourselves the opportunity to understand the people who have occupied this island for at least 10,500 years.
It's not generally known that Corsica is a land of megaliths par excellence.More than a hundred statue-menhirs and numerous dolmens still bear witness to these ancient sites.
beliefs... It is said of Corsica that it has often been conquered, but never subdued.This motto can be explained by the land's long history of martyrdom.Since ancient times,
Corsica's geographical position, at the heart of the Mediterranean, has been the source of much envy.The greatest powers of the Western Mediterranean have succeeded one another there.
The Etruscans, Greeks, Cartaginians and later the Romans settled here.In the Middle Ages, the Pisans and then the Genoese dominated Corsica for centuries... until the 13th century and the arrival of the Romans.
the arrival in power of Pascal Paoli, who made independent Corsica the first modern democracy in Europe, earning the admiration of the philosophers of the Enlightenment.
Even in the 20th century, Corsica surprised the world by becoming, on 4 October 1943, the first département in Europe to free itself from the yoke of the Fascists and the Nazis, thanks to the uprising of its Resistance.
Corsica is also a land of Catholicism... and paganism! Where, to cure people of various ailments, people don't hesitate to recite mysterious Catholic prayers while dropping
oil on a plate... Deep, eternal Corsica is also the Corsica of the mazzeri. These characters are “called” in dreams and go hunting at night.When they kill their game, by
Turning round, they see the head of a villager who is due to die within the year... It is thought that they have access to a parallel world in which they kill the soul of the person they are hunting.
Without a soul, a person withers and dies... Traditional Corsica also has bandits, but not like the others.Ours are bandits of honour who kill to respect their country.
the terrible laws of the vendetta... With Kurnos, you'll discover this historic and mysterious Corsica which, over the millennia, has forged a character so special to the island's inhabitants.